Quotes on the theme of courage and cowardice. Proverbs and quotes for the thematic direction courage and cowardice

Final graduation essay e.

Proverbs

  • The brave is not the one who does not know fear, but who knows and goes towards him.
  • A bold attack is half the salvation.
  • A coward is dead in life, but a brave and dead one lives.
  • A hero dies once, a coward a thousand times.
  • The brave has forty roads, and the coward has one, and even then the wolves run along it.
  • Knowing a lot, talking a little is the rule of a brave man.
  • Whoever is not afraid of death, even a bullet shuns him.
  • From the brave and death flees.
  • For one brave man, seven timid ones are given.
  • Don't be a sheep, and the wolf won't eat.
  • The dog only barks at the brave, but bites the coward.
  • In words, he takes the city, but in reality he is afraid of the frog.
  • All dogs bark at a coward.
  • A coward takes a cockroach for a giant.
  • A coward is afraid of his own shadow.
  • Who trembles - he runs.
  • Brave is a coward behind the stove.
  • A cowardly bunny and a stump - a wolf.
  • After the fight, there are many brave ones.
  • The brave man will not bow his head before the sword.
  • The daredevil is on the move and will jump off the horse and jump on it.
  • The brave one will climb the mountains to the clouds, the cowardly one will not rise higher than the yurt along the wide stairs.
  • Where there is courage, there is victory. People with conviction are always brave. Be brave and you will be strong. The unarmed hand of a brave man deceives the spear of a coward. If you have courage, it won't be hard. A true brave man is the one who knows how to return what he has taken. There is no brave man without wounds. Great courage is silent about itself.
  • The hardness of a weak adversary makes a strong adversary weak.
  • The coward's sword has neither handle nor blade.
  • Those who experience fear see double vision.
  • One coward - death to the whole army.
  • Only a coward goes back on his word.
  • Who is brave, that any test only paints.
  • In the eyes of a coward, everything increases - both dangers and difficulties.
  • To beat a dead tiger is to pass off cowardice as courage.
  • The enemy will run if you don't run.
  • Do not count on the hesitant, do not rely on water.
  • Without courage, strength will fall on the pitchfork. You recognize the hero on the battlefield. Be brave for the truth. Fight loves courage.
  • The fearful one is up to the ear - the bold one is up to the knee.
  • To be afraid of death is not to be a winner.
  • The eye is a coward, the heart is a brave man.
  • I would have been able to speak, but I did not dare.
  • Better to be a dead hero than a living coward.
  • Do not be afraid, and do not boast.
  • There are many fears, but one life.
  • The heart of a falcon, and the courage of a crow.
  • Whoever runs back does not value honor.
  • The frightened beast runs far.
  • To another, thunder is not thunder, but a terrible drum.
  • The throat is wider than the cauldron, and the heart is already a hare's paw.
  • On the cowardly and already - the snake.
  • He is afraid of him like the devil incense.
  • A coward is not a comrade to the brave.
  • There are many dogs on the coward.
  • Who dared, he sat on a horse.
  • He was afraid of his bast shoes.
  • Cowards don't win.
  • A frightened crow is afraid of a bush.

Quotes

  • Only valor lives immortally, For the brave are glorious forever! (V. Bryusov)
  • Frightened - half defeated. (A. Suvorov)
  • Cowards speak most of all about courage, and scoundrels speak about nobility. (A. Tolstoy)
  • Perfect love casts out fear, because there is torment in fear; He who fears is not perfect in love. (Ap. John)
  • Dare and simple people can do it more than once, but not everyone is able to do it at the right time. (I. Chrysostom)
  • Happiness is always on the side of the brave. (P. Bagration)
  • Man fears only that which he does not know; knowledge conquers all fear. (V. Belinsky)
  • To be courageous means to consider everything terrible to be far away and everything that inspires courage to be near. (Aristotle)
  • Harder is he who conquers desires, not warriors. Only he is brave and brave who overcomes himself. (Aristotle)
  • Fate helps the brave. (T. Publius)
  • The virtue that resists the coming evil is called courage. (M. Cicero)
  • Those who are confident in themselves, the feeling of fear is alien to them. And since he who is in sorrow also experiences fear, it follows that courage is incompatible with sorrow. (M. Cicero)
  • Both Venus and a happy accident help the brave. (Ovid)
  • To the brave - the whole earth is the motherland. (Ovid)
  • If the heart is bold, it will not wait for the time to come. (P. Cornell)
  • In vain does a coward beat his chest with his fist to gain courage; it must first be possessed and only strengthened in communion with those who possess it. (D. Diderot)
  • Courage for the defense of the fatherland is a virtue, but courage in a robber is villainy. (A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky)
  • The difference between the brave and the coward is that the former, conscious of the danger, does not feel fear, while the latter feels fear, unaware of the danger. (V. Klyuchevsky)
  • With courage everything can be done, but not everything can be done. (N. Bonaparte)
  • Dare! Progress is achieved at the cost of perseverance. All brilliant victories are, to a greater or lesser extent, a reward for courage. (V. Hugo)
  • And the coward takes courage, seeing that the enemy flees. (P. Merimee)
  • Only courageous, self-confident people who feel at home in the world can take advantage of both the blessings of life and its difficulties. They know that difficulties exist, but they also know that they are able to overcome them. (A. Adler)
  • The most contemptible kind of cowardice is self-pity. (M. Aurelius)
  • Strong life shocks heal from small fears. (O. Balzac)
  • Courage is like love: it needs to feed on hope. (N. Bonaparte)
  • A coward is more dangerous than any other person, he should be feared more than anything. (L. Burne)
  • Our fears are half unfounded and half shameful. (K. Bowie)
  • To be utterly devoid of courage, one must be utterly devoid of desire. (K. Helvetius)
  • It is easier to find such people who voluntarily go to death than those who patiently endure pain. (J. Caesar)
  • Cowardice is inertia that prevents us from asserting our freedom and independence in relations with others. (I. Fichte)
  • Courage should not be confused with arrogance and rudeness: there is nothing more dissimilar both in its source and in its result. (J.-J. Rousseau)
  • Courage based on prudence is not called recklessness, and the exploits of the reckless should rather be attributed to mere luck than to his courage. (M. Cervantes)
  • True courage rarely comes without stupidity. (F. Bacon)
  • Knowing in advance what you want to do gives you courage and ease. (D. Didro)
  • Courage is not in vain considered the highest virtue - after all, courage is the key to other positive qualities. (W. Churchill)
  • Courage is resistance to fear, not its absence. (M. Twain)
  • Happy is he who boldly takes under his protection what he loves. (Ovid)
  • Creativity takes courage. (A. Matisse)
  • It takes a lot of courage to bring bad news to people. (R. Branson)
  • The success of science is a matter of time and courage of the mind. (F. Voltaire)
  • It takes a lot of courage to use your own mind. (E. Burke)
  • Fear can make a daredevil timid, but it gives courage to an indecisive one. (O. Balzac)
  • Courage is the beginning of victory. (Plutarch)
  • There is nothing worse than fear itself. (F. Bacon)
  • Cowardice can never be moral. (M. Gandhi)
  • A coward sends threats only when he is sure of safety. (I. Goethe)
  • You can never live happily when you are trembling with fear all the time. (P. Holbach)
  • Cowardice is very harmful because it keeps the will from useful actions. (R. Descartes)
  • We consider a coward who allows his friend to be insulted in his presence. (D. Didro)
  • Cowardice in its heyday turns into cruelty. (G. Ibsen)
  • Who fearfully cares about how not to lose life will never rejoice in it. (I. Kant)
  • There is a limit to sadness, but not to fear. (Pliny the Younger)
  • Fear is a bad teacher. (Pliny the Younger)
  • Fear arises as a result of impotence of the spirit. (B. Spinoza)
  • Cowardice is knowing what to do and not doing it. (Confucius)
  • Fear makes the smart stupid and the strong weak. (F. Cooper)
  • A fearful dog barks more than bites. (M. Curtius)
  • Cowards die many times before death, the brave die only once. (W. Shakespeare)
  • To be afraid of love is to be afraid of life, and whoever is afraid of life is three-quarters dead. (B. Russell)
  • Large meanness is done out of hatred, small ones out of fear. (Ch. Montesquieu)
  • God is a hope for the brave, not an excuse for the cowardly. (Plutarch)
  • If you are afraid - don't do it, if you do it - don't be afraid, if you don't do it - you will perish! (Genghis Khan)
  • The tyrant has the most cause for fear: he has to tremble even before the barber's razor in fear that he might be stabbed. (Plato)
  • Being a slave to fear is the worst kind of slavery. (B. Shaw)
  • Living in eternal fear, I will not call free. (Horace)
  • In our world, danger always threatens those who fear it. (B. Shaw)
  • Everyone is afraid. Only matadors know how to suppress their fear, and it does not prevent them from working with the bull. If not for this fear, in Spain every bootblack would be a matador. (E. Hemingway)
  • Always do what you are afraid to do. (R. Emerson)
  • All other virtues free us from the dominion of vices, only courage frees us from the dominion of fate. (F. Bacon)
  • The hero is not braver than an ordinary person in general, he is only five minutes longer than him. (R. Emerson)
  • The only thing to be afraid of is fear itself. (F. Roosevelt)
  • If you want to be afraid of nothing, remember that you can be afraid of everything. (Seneca)
  • Pitiful is he who has few desires and many fears, and yet such is the fate of monarchs. (F. Bacon)
  • Hounded and pressed against the wall, the cat turns into a tiger. (M. Cervantes)
  • From an age without hope, an age without fear is born. (A. Musset)
  • Some show courage without having it, but there is no person who would demonstrate wit if he were not witty by nature. (J. Halifax)

... The courage that is needed in order to gather courage at a critical moment and make a bold decision is completely different from the courage that allows a person to brilliantly command a division under fire.
F. ENGELS

There are two kinds of courage: the courage of superiority and the courage of mental poverty, drawing strength from its official position, from the consciousness that it uses a privileged weapon in the struggle ...
K. MARX and F. ENGELS

... One must have the courage to sacrifice immediate success for more important things.
F. ENGELS

... Cowardice takes away the mind ...
It is necessary to make the people terrified of themselves in order to inspire courage in them.
K. MARX

Valor is always aware of the consequences of our actions,
Valor - always disassemble, where is honor, where is right, where is benefit,
What is good and what is not, what is vile, dishonorable and harmful.
LUCYLIUS

Valor is the limit to believe and the measure of our desires,
Valor is the ability to know the true value of wealth,
Valor is something to honor that is truly worthy of honor.
LUCYLIUS

Valor can manifest whether you are wearing home dress or battle armor, whether you are at home or in a military camp, whether your hand is lowered or raised to strike.
MONTAIN

It is the highest virtue to do in solitude what men usually venture only in the presence of many witnesses.
LAROCHEFOCO

... Everything that we call heroic valor and admire as greatness and loftiness of spirit is nothing but calm and firmly grounded pride and self-respect ...
Hume

Nobility is seldom the result of valor; valor is the result of nobility even more rarely.
F. BACON

Vanity, shame, and most importantly, temperament - this is what usually underlies male prowess and female virtue.
F. LAROCHEFOUCAULT

Birth and death are the two noblest virtues.
D. JEBRAN

A bold deed need not necessarily presuppose valor in the person who performed it; for he who is truly valorous will always be so under all circumstances. .
M. MONTAIN

Calamity is the touchstone of valor.
SENECA

Drying one tear is more valor than shedding a sea of ​​blood.
D. BYRON

Our heroism stumbles not in feats of military prowess, but only in feats of civil courage.
H. V. SHELGUNOV

Courage is the guardian and support of all other virtues, and one who is deprived of courage can hardly be firm in the performance of duty and show all the qualities of a truly worthy person.
Courage is a virtue by virtue of which people in danger do wonderful deeds.
ARISTOTLE

Whoever intelligently rushes into danger for the sake of good and is not afraid of it, he is courageous, and this is courage.
ARISTOTLE

There are two main manifestations of courage: contempt for death and contempt for pain.
CICERO

Courage is courage in the face of fear, so that when fear is moderate, courage increases; the same things both increase and destroy courage: under the influence of the same fears people become both courageous and cowardly.
ARISTOTLE

... Courage is found in fears and daring, commensurate with a person.
ARISTOTLE

It will take equally great strength or firmness of spirit both to curb courage and to curb fear.
B. SPINOSA

Flight in time must be attributed to the same courage free man, like a battle; in other words, a free man chooses to flee with the same courage or presence of mind as he chooses to fight.
B. SPINOSA

There is nothing in the world more courageous than stupidity.
Courage from cowardice
At walking distance.
Iranian-Tajik saying

Courage without prudence is only a special kind of cowardice.
SENECA

Not the courageous one who climbs into danger without feeling fear, but the one who can suppress the strongest fear and think about danger without submitting to fear.
D. USHINSKY

Let fear accompany you in danger, but let it remain to such an extent that, when it was necessary to overcome it, reason would win and overcome this fear.
LEONARDO BRUNI

Courageous is not only the one who conquers his enemies, but also the one who dominates his own pleasures. Some, however, reign over the cities and at the same time are the slaves of the woman.
DEMOCRITES

Harder is he who conquers desires, not warriors. Only he is brave and brave who overcomes himself.
ARISTOTLE ("Bee")

Being courageous means
Curb your temper.
KASHIFI

Courageous is he who has managed to be kind in misfortune.
MARTIAL

Fear of low and unworthy deeds is courage.
B. JOHNSON (S. SMLYLS)

The highest courage is to rise above anger and love the offender.
Persian wisdom (L. N. TOLSTOY)

There is inner courage - the courage of conscience, which manifests itself in honesty, selflessness, in the courage to do what we consider right in spite of all human opinions and judgments. The hallmark of this kind of courage is the greatness of the soul.
S. SMLYLS

... The true greatness of the soul, which gives a person the right to respect himself, most of all lies in his consciousness that there is nothing else that would belong to him by a greater right than the disposal of his own desires.
R. DECARTES

The crown of courage is modesty.
Arabic proverb

Courage usually goes hand in hand with gentleness of character, and courageous man more than others capable of generosity.
N. V. SHELGUNOV

Perseverance is to courage what a wheel is to a lever: it is the constant renewal of the fulcrum.
Hugo

Courage makes the blows of fate insignificant.
True courage is not only a rising balloon, but also a falling parachute.
L. BERNE

To appeal to courage is already half the same as to inspire it.
I. KANT

Let everything leave me, if only courage does not leave me.
I. FICHTE

Fear not tempered by courage makes a man a coward; boldness, not tempered by fear, produces disastrous audacity and riot.
K. D. USHINSKY

Courage that is not based on prudence is called recklessness, and the exploits of the reckless should rather be attributed to mere luck than courage.
SERVANTES

Courage for the defense of the fatherland is a virtue, but courage in a robber is villainy.
A. A. VESTUZHEV-MARLINSKY

The brave is not the one who is not afraid, but the one who knows how to suppress his cowardice. There can be no other courage.
A. S. MAKARENKO

All other virtues free us from the domination of vices, only courage frees us from the dominion of fate.
After courage, there is nothing more beautiful than the recognition of cowardice.
C. HELVETIUS

He who is generous does not need to be brave.
Persian proverb

Courage derives its gain from the cowardice of others.
Y. B. KNYAZHNIN

Cowardice is knowing what to do and not doing it.
CONFUCIUS (L. N. TOLSTOY)

Cowardice is inertia that prevents us from asserting our freedom and independence in relations with others.
I. FICHTE

... Cowardice comes only from the absence of a certain hope or desire ...
R. DECARTES

Cowardice and falsehood are a hallmark of a weak character who is afraid and runs away from the truth, and at best hides it from himself.
R. ROLLAND

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
M. MONTAIN

... Cowardice is very harmful, because it keeps the will from useful actions.

If someone knows what decision he should make in order to produce something good or prevent something bad, but does not do this, then this is called cowardice.
B. SPINOSA

Resentment at irresistible evil and submission to evil that can be mastered testify to cowardice. What can be said of a person who is indignant at bad weather and meekly endures an insult?
A. RIVAROL

The most contemptible kind of cowardice is self-pity.
MARC AURELIUS

To be afraid of love is to be afraid of life, and to be afraid of life is to be two-thirds dead. (Bertrand Russell)

A fearful dog barks more than bites. (Curtius)

In battle, those are most exposed to danger who are most obsessed with fear; courage is like a wall. (Sallust)

Heroism is an artificial concept, because courage is relative. (F. Bacon)

Excessive courage is the same vice as excessive timidity. (B. Johnson)

Some show courage without having it, but there is no person who would demonstrate wit if he were not witty by nature. (J. Halifax)

Frightened - half defeated. (A.V. Suvorov)

When you are afraid - act boldly, and you will avoid the worst troubles. (G. Sachs)

Who fearfully cares about how not to lose life will never rejoice in it. (I. Kant)

Who is courageous, he is brave. (Cicero)

It is easier to find such people who voluntarily go to death than those who patiently endure pain. (J. Caesar)

Love doesn't mix well with fear. (N. Machiavelli)


We consider a coward who allows his friend to be insulted in his presence. (D. Diderot)

True courage rarely comes without stupidity. (F. Bacon)

Ignorance makes people bold, and reflection makes them indecisive. (Thucydides)

You can't love someone you're afraid of, or someone who's afraid of you. (Cicero)

Courage should not be confused with arrogance and rudeness: there is nothing more dissimilar both in its source and in its result. (J.J. Rousseau)

There is nothing worse than fear itself. (F. Bacon)

You can never live happily when you are trembling with fear all the time. (P. Holbach)

Courage replaces the fortress walls. (Sallust)

Courage is like love: it needs to feed on hope. (N. Bonaparte)

Cowards speak most of all about courage, and scoundrels speak about nobility. (A.N. Tolstoy)

Knowing in advance what you want to do gives you courage and ease. (D. Diderot)

When fleeing, more soldiers always die than in battle. (S. Lagerlöf)

The difference between the brave and the coward is that the former, conscious of the danger, does not feel fear, while the latter feels fear, unaware of the danger. (V. O. Klyuchevsky)

Courage, bordering on recklessness, contains more madness than resilience. (M. Cervantes)

Courage based on prudence is not called recklessness, and the exploits of the reckless should rather be attributed to mere luck than to his courage. (M. Cervantes)

Courage is the beginning of victory. (Plutarch)

Courage is not in vain considered the highest virtue - after all, courage is the guarantee of the rest. positive qualities. (W. Churchill)

Courage is resistance to fear, not its absence. (M. Twain)

Fear can make a daredevil timid, but it gives courage to an indecisive one. (O. Balzac)

Perfect love casts out fear, because there is torment in fear; He who fears is not perfect in love. (Apostle John)

Fear arises as a result of impotence of the spirit. (B. Spinoza)

Fear makes the smart stupid and the strong weak. (F. Cooper)

Fear is a bad teacher. (Pliny the Younger)

Happy is he who boldly takes under his protection what he loves. (Ovid)

Creativity takes courage. (A. Matisse)

It takes a lot of courage to bring bad news to people. (R. Branson)

A coward is more dangerous than any other person, he should be feared more than anything. (L. Berne)

Cowards die many times before death, the brave die only once. (W. Shakespeare)

Cowardice can never be moral. (M. Gandhi)

A coward sends threats only when he is sure of safety. (I. Goethe)

Cowardice is knowing what to do and not doing it. (Confucius)

Cowardice is inertia that prevents us from asserting our freedom and independence in relations with others. (I. Fichte)

Cowardice is very harmful because it keeps the will from useful actions. (R. Descartes)

Cowardice in its prime turns into cruelty. (G. Ibsen)

The success of science is a matter of time and courage of the mind. (Voltaire) To be completely devoid of courage, one must be completely devoid of desire. (Helvetius K.)

Man fears only that which he does not know; knowledge conquers all fear. (V. G. Belinsky)

It takes a lot of courage to use your own mind. (E. Burke)

Beat your own - strangers will be afraid. (Russian epil.)

Beware of the one who did not answer your blow. (D.B. Shaw)

Prudence is what we call our cowardice. (Tetcorax)

God is a hope for the brave, not an excuse for the cowardly. (Plutarch)

If you are afraid - don't do it, if you do it - don't be afraid, if you don't do it - you will perish! (Genghis Khan)

Fear the one who fears you. (Persian epil.)

Fear the man whose god lives in heaven. (D.B. Shaw)

Be afraid of the Danes who bring gifts. (Virgil)

The tyrant has the most reason for fear: he has to tremble even before the barber's razor in fear that he might be stabbed. (Plato)

A fearful dog barks more than it bites. (Quint Curtius Rufus)

Those who stand in the way should not be afraid, but those who give way.
(Maria Ebner-Eschenbach)

To be afraid of love is to be afraid of life, and to be afraid of life is to be two-thirds dead. (Bertrand Russell)

You should not be afraid of what you are afraid of, you should be afraid of what you are NOT afraid of. (Tetcorax)

Being a slave to fear is the worst kind of slavery. (D.B. Shaw)

Living in eternal fear, I will not call free. (Horace)

Wine breeds the brave. (Pythagoras)

In our world, danger always threatens those who fear it.
(D.B. Shaw)

The wolf, even if he was alone, is terrible for the whole flock of sheep. (Goethe)

Imagination makes courageous or cowardly, according as it exaggerates or diminishes the danger. (Pierre Buast)
(Truely noticed. Whoever has a weak imagination, he dared)

To resurrect without the consent of the killers - that's courage. (S. Lets)

What cowardice does not dress up in order to disguise itself. (Tetcorax)

Everyone is afraid. Only matadors know how to suppress their fear, and it does not prevent them from working with the bull. If not for this fear, in Spain every bootblack would be a matador. (Ernest Hemingway)

Always do what you are afraid to do. (R. Emerson)

All other virtues free us from the dominion of vices, only courage frees us from the dominion of fate.
(F. Bacon)

All religions are based on the fear of the many and the dexterity of the few. (Stendhal)

Everything is so dangerous that you can not be especially afraid of anything.
(Gertrude Stein)

In battle, those are most exposed to danger who are most obsessed with fear; courage is like a wall. (Quentin Crisp)

There is more evil in fear than in the object itself, which is feared. (Cicero)

In fear and danger, we are more inclined to believe in miracles. (Cicero)

All nature strives for self-preservation. (Cicero)
(That's why she invented fear)

In what only fear and hope do not convince people. (Vauvenargue)

Where there is no imagination, there is no fear. (A.K. Doyle)

If you fall as a hero, you will be lifted up; if you fall as a coward, you will be trampled. (Russian epil.)

The hero is not braver than an ordinary person in general, he is only five minutes longer than him. (Ralph Emerson)

Heroism is an artificial concept, because courage is relative.
(F. Bacon)

The eyes are afraid, but the hands are doing. (Russian epil.)

It is foolish to remain where there are more reasons for fear than for hope. (Miguel Cervantes)

To be afraid of the Danaans is not to see gifts. (Boleslav Bartashevich)

Two must be feared: one is a strong enemy, and the other is an insidious friend. (Unsur al Maali)

Discipline is the art of making soldiers more fearful of their officers than of the enemy. (Claude Helvetius)

For a prudent person, it is the mind that determines the boundaries of courage. (Robert Escarpi)

There is a limit to sadness, but not to fear. (Pliny the Younger)

Fools breed without interruption, therefore, the times of brave and brave heroes never pass. (Tetcorax)

The only thing to be afraid of is fear itself.
(F. Roosevelt)

If you're afraid, don't speak; if he said - do not be afraid. (Arabic sentence)

If you are not afraid of anyone, then you are the most terrible.
(Author not named)

If you want to be afraid of nothing, remember that you can be afraid of everything. (Seneca)

The thirst for glory, the fear of disgrace, the pursuit of wealth, the desire to live comfortably and pleasantly, the desire to humiliate others - this is what often underlies the valor so extolled by people. (F. La Rochefoucauld)

Pitiful is he who has few desires and many fears, and yet such is the fate of monarchs. (F. Bacon)

Cruelty is characteristic of laws dictated by cowardice, for cowardice can only be energetic when it is cruel. (Karl Marx)

Hounded and pressed against the wall, the cat turns into a tiger.
(M. Cervantes)

Evil people obey because they are afraid, and good people obey because they love. (Aristotle)

From an age without hope, an age without fear is born. (Alfred de Musset)

Excessive courage is the same vice as excessive timidity.
(Benjamin Johnson)

Some show courage without having it, but there is no person who would demonstrate wit if he were not witty by nature.
(George Halifax)

The tester is afraid. (Horace)
(Of course, the one who “received the tinsel” already knows that he can get it again and at any moment. 🙂)

True courage lies in the calm expectation of events. (Martin du Gard)

What anxiety would torment wicked people if the fear of punishment were eliminated? (Cicero)

Oddly enough, but a person is especially afraid of the future when he does not have it. (Vadim Zverev)

When the Lord wants to punish a hare, he gives him courage.
(G. Amurova)

When a coward falls into favor, he becomes impudent and is not afraid to offend people more significant than himself. (M. Cervantes)

When fear comes, one rarely sleeps. (Publius Sir)

When the brave is silent, the cowardly is silent. (S. Dovlatov)

When a person struggles to find means to make others fear him, he, first of all, reaches the point that they begin to hate him. (Montesquieu)

For some, only a lack of courage prevents them from becoming a coward.
(Thomas Fuller)

Whoever fears suffering already suffers from fear. (Montaigne)

Those who are afraid are beaten. (Arabic sentence)

Those who live in fear die of fear. (Leonardo da Vinci)

Who is terrible for many, he must be afraid of many. (Solon)

Whoever is infected with the fear of disease is already infected with the disease of fear. (Montaigne)

He who dares to do much is bound to err in many ways. (Menander)

He who is fed up with fear is not hungry for impressions. (S. Lets)

He who is too afraid of hatred does not know how to govern. (Seneca)

Whoever is capable of anything should be afraid of everything. (Pierre Corneille)

Those who are brave and warlike will perish; who is brave and not warlike - will live. (Lao Tzu)

It is better not to be afraid, lying on the straw, than to be anxious on a golden bed. (Epicurus)

Better a terrible end than endless fear. (Shiller)

Love doesn't mix well with fear. (Machiavelli)

People are divided into three categories: those who are “for”, those who are “against”, and those who are afraid. (Tetcorax)

People who are insecure and trembling over every trifle like to pretend that they are not afraid of death. (Vauvenargue)

Any donkey can kick a dead lion. (Arabic sentence)
(The proverb refers to courage in the most direct way!)

A little fear makes us cautious, a big fear makes us relaxed. (Chuangzi)

Courage without prudence is only a special kind of cowardice. (Seneca)

Courage is strength for resistance; courage - to attack evil. (Pierre Buast)

Courage is courage multiplied by prudence.
(Val. Borisov)

We are young as our hopes and as old as our fears.
(Vera Peiffer)

We hope approximately, but we are afraid exactly. (Paul Valery)

It is very easy to strike fear into a faint-hearted person, but it is difficult to foresee the result of this. (Bogomil Raynov)

Am I really that timid? I don't have the courage to answer this question. (Benny Hill)

The dog barks at the brave, and vomits at the cowardly. (Russian epil.)

True courage rarely comes without stupidity. (F. Bacon)

Our fears are half unfounded and half shameful. (Bowie)

Our fear is the source of courage for our enemies.
(Thomas Mann)

Ignorance makes people bold, and reflection makes them indecisive. (Thucydides)

It is impossible to imagine that those who are trying to instill fear are not themselves afraid of those in whom they wish to instill this fear. (Cicero)

Do no evil - you will not be in eternal fear. (Sumerian epil.)

An unknown misfortune always inspires more fear. (Publius Sir)

Some people are so afraid of dying that they just don't start living.
(Van Dyke)

It is absurd to be afraid of what cannot be avoided. (Publius Sir)

You can't love someone you're afraid of, or someone who's afraid of you. (Cicero)

Courage should not be confused with arrogance and rudeness: there is nothing more dissimilar both in its source and in its result.
(J.J. Rousseau)

It is unwise to be afraid of what is inevitable. (Publius Sir)

Hell is not so terrible as the path to it. (Jewish epistle)

Impatience in danger makes the brave; patience in danger creates the fearless. (Pierre Buast)

There is nothing worse than fear itself. (F. Bacon)

There are no fearless people among those who have something to lose.
(Napoleon Bonaparte)

It is never cowardice to submit to the power above you. (Dumas father)

Nothing is scary except fear itself. (F. Bacon)

Usually happiness favors the bold and enterprising, but nothing inspires us with greater courage than a good opinion of ourselves. (David Hume)

One man in an army is the overseer of others, and a hundred who alone and without witnesses would be cowards become brave when they are together. (B. Mandeville)

Danger is always there for those who fear it. (D.B. Shaw)

The danger is the more terrible, the more unlikely it is. (D. Galsworthy)

Courage is like love: it needs to feed on hope.
(Napoleon Bonaparte)

Separate confusion from its cause, look at the matter itself, and you will be convinced that there is nothing terrible in any of them, except for fear itself. (Seneca)

Despair is fear without hope. (R. Descartes)

The first sign of love in men is timidity, in women it is courage. (Hugo)

Fear created the first gods in the world. (Stations)

Conquer fear before it turns into terror. (Tetcorax)

While they are afraid of us, let them hate us as much as they want. (Julius Caesar in relation to Augustus Germanicus)

Sometimes the fear of trouble leads to worse trouble. (Bualo)

After courage, there is nothing more beautiful than the recognition of cowardice. (Helvetius)

Reverence without knowing what is due turns into self-torture. Caution without proper knowledge turns into cowardice. Courage without proper knowledge turns into recklessness. Straightforwardness without knowledge of the proper turns into rudeness. (Confucius)

Knowing in advance what you want to do gives you courage and ease. (Denis Diderot)

I'd rather be a coward for five minutes than a corpse all my life.
(Lev Landau)

Prudent prudence is true virtue. (Euripides)

With courage, everything can be done, but not everything can be achieved. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

With a strong fear, all the abilities of a person suddenly reach either extreme tension, or fall into a complete decline. (Balzac)

The reason for fear is the unknown. (Titus Livius)

Let them hate, as long as they are afraid. (Words from the tragedy of Lucius Action "Atreus". Subsequently, they became a Latin proverb)

The difference between the brave and the coward is that the former, conscious of the danger, does not feel fear, while the latter feels fear, unaware of the danger. (V. Klyuchevsky)

Reasonable courage undertakes difficult things, but does not encroach on impossible ones. (Valentin Flechier)

A timid person is frightened even before danger comes, a coward - at a time when she is near, and brave man- after she passes. (Richter)

A timid person is pushed around by any rogue. (Beaumarchais)

The biggest weakness is a panic fear of appearing weak. (Bossuet)

A suicide is both a coward and a brave man: he is afraid of time, but not afraid of eternity. (P. Buast)

Most dangerous man- coward. Fear the one who is afraid of others.
(K. Berne)

Take the first step - and you will understand that not everything is so scary. (Seneca)

Gray boredom, fear and anger - these are the reasons why life is so short. (Richard Bach)

Strong life shocks heal from small fears. (Balzac)

It is not the one who is not afraid who dares, the one who overcomes fear dares. (Tetcorax)

Courage without prudence is only a special kind of cowardice. (Seneca)

Courage takes cities from the outside, meanness from the inside.
(Gr. Yablonsky)

Courage, bordering on recklessness, contains more madness than resilience. (M. Cervantes)

Courage is made from well-trained cowardice. (V. Bruskov)

Courage lies in the ability to choose the lesser evil, no matter how terrible it may be. (Stendhal)

The courage of the hare and the fear of the wolf exist, but in life they cannot meet. (Ishkhan Gevorgyan)

Courage that is not based on prudence is called recklessness, and the exploits of the reckless should rather be attributed to mere luck than to his courage. (Miguel Cervantes)

Courage is the beginning, but chance is the master of the end. (Democritus)

Courage is the beginning of victory. (Plutarch)

Courage springs equally often from despair and hope; In the first case, there is nothing to lose, in the second, everything can be gained.
(Diana de Poitiers)

Courage is one form of forgetfulness of fear. (Tetcorax)

Courage is often the result of a feeling of devaluing life, while cowardice is always the result of a false exaggeration of its value. (F. Iskander)

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the understanding that there is something more important than fear. (Ambrose Redmoon)

Courage is one of the most difficult forms of self-hypnosis. (Tetcorax)

Courage is overcoming fear; the absence of fear is fearlessness. The first is much more difficult. (Tetcorax)

Courage is cowardice overcome. (Ilya Shevelev)

Courage is resistance to fear and control over fear, not the absence of fear. (Mark Twain)

Fate helps the brave. (Virgil, Aeneid)

Humility is often a cover for cowardice and an excuse for laziness.
(Sophia Segur)

Perfect love casts out fear, because there is torment in fear; He who fears is not perfect in love. (Apostle John)

A soldier should be more afraid of his commander than of the enemy. (Xenophon)

With courage everything can be done, but not everything can be done. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

The middle path is the safest. (Ovid)

Fear, instead of averting danger, invites it, for secret cowards begin to stigmatize obvious ones. (F. Chesterfield)

Fear arises as a result of impotence of the spirit. (Spinoza)

Fear is the constant companion of untruth. (Shakespeare)
(On the contrary, it is also true. Falsehood is the constant companion of fear)

Fear makes the smart fools and the strong weak. (F. Cooper)

Fear is the expectation of evil. (Zeno)

Fear is the relation of freedom to guilt. (Kierkegaard)

Fear is the cause by which superstition arises, persists, and is sustained. (Spinoza)

Fear is contagious just like a runny nose, and every time it makes you singular plural. (Goethe)

Fears and worries are not afraid of weapons. (Lucretius)

The fears and apprehensions of a young age do not leave some people for the rest of their lives. (W. Thackeray)

Fear and hope can convince a person of anything. (Luc Vauvenargues)

Fear likes to look at the terrible; he wants to see him apart from himself. (Joseph Joubert)

Fear is the beginning of all wisdom. (Paul Holbach)

Fear not tempered by courage makes a man a coward; boldness, not tempered by fear, produces disastrous audacity and riot. (K. Ushinsky)

Fear is defined as the expectation of evil. (Aristotle)

Fear takes away memory. (Thucydides)

Fear of the possibility of error should not deter us from seeking the truth. (Helvetius)

Fear of failure should not block our path in a risky direction. (Tetcorax)

Fear gives courage. (Latin epil.)

The fear of death is more painful than death itself. (Labruyère)

The fear of death is inversely proportional to the good life.
(Lev Tolstoy)

Fear either gives wings to the legs, or chains them to the ground. (Montaigne)

Fear is the only thing that will slow you down in spiritual development. (Tuesday Lobsang)

Severity breeds fear, but rudeness breeds hatred. (F. Bacon)

Fate fears the brave and crushes the cowards. (Seneca)

Where the cowards meekly keep their distance from each other, the brave ones will certainly get into a fight. (Tetcorax)

Where there is no danger, pleasure is less pleasant. (Ovid)

Only a blockhead can imagine that if a person is taught to be a coward in peacetime, then in war he will behave like a lion. (A. Conan Doyle)

Only evil people afraid of evil. (Walter Scott)

Only fear and self-interest make a person evil. (Guillaume Reynal)

Only he has the power to create something new who has the courage to be absolutely negative. (Feuerbach)

Only the one who is not afraid of anything can inspire fear.
(Alfred de Musset)

Only a coward kills the one he fears. (Rafael Sabatini)

He who believes in nothing is afraid of everything. (D.B. Shaw)

One who rides a tiger is very afraid of getting off it. (Chinese epil.)

What has fallen, trample on - vile coward initiative. (Ovid)

A coward threatens when he is safe. (Goethe)

The cowardly trembles in anticipation of danger, the cowardly when it comes, and the brave when it has passed. (Jean Paul Richter)

A cowardly friend is more terrible than an enemy, because you fear the enemy, but you hope for a friend. (Lev Tolstoy)

The cowardly calls himself cautious, and the stingy one calls himself thrifty. (Publius Sir)

A coward doesn't play roulette, a coward plays hockey. (Tetcorax)

Cowardice is the desire to avoid the greater evil we fear with a lesser one. (B. Spinoza)

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty. (Montaigne)

Cowardice takes away the mind. (F. Engels)

Cowardice is almost always rewarded, but courage is a virtue that is most often punished by death.
(Ernest Renan)

A coward sends threats only when he is sure of his safety. (Goethe)

Cowardice comes only from the absence of certain hope and desire. (Rene Descartes)

The coward dies at every danger that threatens him, but the brave man is overtaken by death only once. (Shakespeare)

Cowards lose heart from their thoughts. (Pierre Buast)

Cowards become bold if they notice that they are afraid. (Shakespeare)

A coward is someone who is afraid just in case. (Sardonicus)

A coward is a person who adequately assesses the situation.
(Author not identified)

Heroes have bouts of fear, and cowards have flashes of courage. (Stendhal)

More terrible than death is cowardice, cowardice and the inevitable after that - slavery.

The ability to distinguish the possible from the impossible is what distinguishes the hero from the adventurer. (Theodor Mommsen)

Fear has big eyes. (Russian last)
(In the sense that we tend to exaggerate the dangers)

Fear has a sharp ear, a keen eye, a delicate scent and frisky feet. (Tetcorax)

A brave man is a person who values ​​his own life little, and even less - a stranger. (Adrian Decourcelle)

Courage is more important than quantity. (Vegetius)
(Meaning - in the war)

Courage puts life at risk, and fear protects it. (Leonardo da Vinci)

Courage is always the result of passions.
(Claude Helvetius)

Courage feeds wars, but breeds their fear. (Alain)

Bravery occupies a middle place between presumptuous courage and timidity. (Apuley)

Courage is when only you know how scared you are.
(Franklin Jones)

A brave colonel makes the whole regiment brave. (Frederick II)

The brave is stubborn, the cowardly is stubborn. (Lucius Shares)

Brave people should be rewarded with what they themselves aspire to; the cowardly should be punished with what they hate most - death. Then the cowardly people, instigated by punishments, will turn into brave ones, and the brave people, inspired by rewards, will fight to the death. (Shang Yang)

Civilization, cities, feelings, fine arts, laws and armies - everything is born of fear, and especially its highest form - the fear of death. (Maurice Druon)

What we desire is what we fear. (Irina Sherer)

A person who is afraid of suffering is already suffering from his fear. (Montaigne)

It is equally difficult for a person to get rid of fear and part with hope. (Ludwig)

A person feels lonely when he is surrounded by cowards. (Albert Camus)

It takes a lot of courage to use your own mind. (Edmund Burke)

What is the most important thing in public affairs? - Courage.
What's in second and third place? Also courage.
And at the same time, courage is a child of ignorance and meanness. (F. Bacon)

I fear nothing but danger. (Francois Rabelais)

Don't be afraid of lightning and thunder
Do not be afraid of the chain and whip,
Don't be afraid of poison and sword
No lawlessness, no law
No hurricane, no thunderstorm
Not a human groan
Not a human tear.
N. Nekrasov. "Baiushki bye"

Notes.

2. To understand the topic, you need to consider the following.

Fear is the strongest emotion and the most effective stimulus of progress. From it, it happens, they fall into an affect, lose consciousness, reason, and even die. "Right there." Fear has several gradations, for which separate words are invented in native speech: anxiety, fear, anxiety, fear, horror. As for the phobia, it is a medical term and describes one of the mental disorders.

In plural(fears) denotes not so much emotions as the sources of these fears.

There is a difference between fear and cowardice. Fear, as an emotion, is in the subconscious, so we cannot erase it from our worldview. And cowardice is a trait. Character traits can be cultivated in oneself or, conversely, get rid of them. Whoever cannot overcome fear is cowardly, and whoever overcomes it is brave.

4. A blogger advises a person who is afraid of “everything and everything” to study the relevant sections of psychology and, on this basis, engage in self-education. And then it will become easier for him to live.

5. Knight without fear and reproach - disinterested, generous, upholding everything noble, selfless intercessor; a person who tries not to deviate from his high moral principles under any circumstances.

6. The proverb “The devil is not so terrible as he is painted” is not included in the list, in view of its well-knownness.

Text Sayings, aphorisms and quotes of the great and famous people" :

Bravery occupies a middle place between presumptuous courage and timidity.
Apuleius
Wise Quotes, Courage

Courage is the beginning of victory.
Plutarch
Beginning, Courage

Intelligence and courage are an empty sound if devotion is forgotten.
Visakhadatta
Loyalty, Devotion, Courage, Intelligence

Courage, bordering on recklessness, contains more madness than resilience.
Miguel de Cervantes
Courage

Fate helps the brave.
Publius Terence Afr
Courage, Fate

When you are afraid - act boldly, And you will avoid the worst troubles.
Hans Sachs
Life, Courage, Fear

To be utterly devoid of courage, one must be utterly devoid of desire.
Claude A. Helvetius
Courage

In vain does a coward beat his chest with his fist to gain courage; it must first be possessed and only strengthened in communion with those who possess it.
Denis Diderot
Motivational quotes, Courage, Cowardice, Courage and Cowardice

Knowing in advance what you want to do gives you courage and ease.
Denis Diderot
Business and Labor, Life quotes, Knowledge, Courage

In a country where there is order, be bold both in actions and in speeches. In a country where there is no order, be bold in action, but careful in speech.
Confucius
people, courage

How can a tree bloom if its roots have dried up? So it is here: until there is proper order in the kingdom, where will military courage come from? If the leader does not constantly strengthen the army, then he is more likely to be defeated than a winner. You, having despised all this, praise only courage; and what courage is based on is not important to you.
Ivan V. the Terrible
Power, Courage

It is easier to find such people who voluntarily go to death than those who patiently endure pain.
Gaius Julius Caesar
Pain, Life and Death, Wise Quotes, Courage

The brave are tested in times of trouble, but true friends are in trouble.
John of Damascus
Trouble, Friendship and Friends, Life Quotes, Trials, Courage, Courage and Cowardice

Who is courageous, he is brave.
Mark Tullius Cicero
Courage, Courage

Ordinary people can dare more than once, but not everyone is able to do this at the right time.
John Chrysostom
Life Quotes, Risk, Courage

Courage should not be confused with arrogance and rudeness: there is nothing more dissimilar both in its source and in its result.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Rudeness, Courage

Excessive courage is the same vice as excessive timidity.
Benjamin Johnson
Courage

The soul is fearful and unsteady in ignorance, and not in essence. If, however, I meet a once brave, but now fearful, I understand that this did not happen due to the nature of vice, for nature does not change so much.
John Chrysostom
Soul, Ignorance, Courage